This morning I participated in Dee’s shoot as Assistant Director and Director of Photography – which is considered pretty rare. Basically, Dee is the youngest in the group and has found this camp to be extremely challenging for him. The advisers asked me if I would help take him under my wings and, in their words, “save his shoot”.
When I arrived I immediately was informed he changed his script once again from the version I had planned off of. Nothing was set, nothing was ready. To sum up the story in a nutshell, it was a horrible morning and Dee gave up on the project 2 times. After some serious talking with Dee between myself and the adviser, we convinced him to finish it out for his own good. The adviser (named Max) and I became very compatible today – we work a lot like each other as far as how we see film shoots.
While I was with Dee, Tyler was shooting his film on a different set with the majority of the people from our class. Tyler’s shoot was about as successful as Dee’s, if not worse. He moved some stuff around (specifically a huge expensive desk) without asking and it killed him. Why did it kill him? He broke it. It’s going to cost him a nice chunk of change to replace…
This afternoon was Tim’s shoot. Tim’s shoot was better than the morning, but it was still difficult to communicate with him about different things. I was his Assistant Director (seems to be the pattern today) and I helped run things as best I could. Not tons to say about his shoot, so I guess that’s all…
Tomorrow is Saturday!! That’s A REALLY GOOD THING! It’s been a long, hard week and I’m looking forward to doing something really exciting tomorrow, so we’ll see what happens.
Until then, keep those emails coming! I’ll have some time to check them tonight.
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